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Hi Kerryh_r,

Just looking around for a solution to another issue when i spotted this thread. Not sure if you've solved this issue yet but here's my contribution. I too had similar slow response problems and ran many AV and malware scans to attempt to solve the problem. A typical symptom on my reasonably fast PC (AMD 64 3000) was that IE would take ages to open even though cpu usage remained low as did the memory usage. In addition i had very slow startup and shutdown times.

In the end i found Spysweeper to be the culprit. Try uninstalling it, at least temporarily to see what effect it has. For me, the degradation in performance caused by this software was worse than that which could be caused by the malware that it was protecting me from.

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